Proclaiming the
absurd: Group says extreme right embraces eco-terrorism

By Alan Carubaweb
posted August 27, 2001

"The Earth Liberation Front realizes the profit motive caused and
reinforced by the capitalist society is destroying all life on this planet.
The only way, at this point in time, to stop that continued destruction
of life is to by any means necessary take the profit motive out of killing."

Do you think that any conservative or even extreme right-wing organization
could possibly find itself in agreement with the statement above? You
can check it out at the website of the ELF (www.earthliberationfront.com).

One of the classic techniques of dis-information is to shift the blame
away from the actual perpetrators and make it look like those who most
oppose their actions are, in fact, the real culprits.

We have seen this done most egregiously by the liberal press in the United
States and Europe, conferring sainthood on one of the world's worst terrorists,
Yassir Arafat, and his Palestinian Liberation Organization, while blaming
the victims of their terror bombings. Never mind that such acts run counter
to all international laws. The Israelis, we're told, are the "occupiers"
of Palestinian lands, despite having been a sovereign nation for 53 years
and despite the fact that its earliest settlers purchased the land from
Arabs, turning the desert into farming communities.

Now we have word that the Southern Poverty Law Center, (www.splcenter.org/intelligenceproject/ip-4r8.html)
famed for its fight against the Ku Klux Klan, is saying the Earth Liberation
Front, the most radical Green terrorist organization, "makes much
of the radical right look rather meek. But like most groups on the radical
right today, the ELF sees global capitalism as an enemy."

This is absurd!

This is either pathological self-delusion or a deliberate act of deception.
With astonishing sangfroid, the SPLC asserts that "right-wing extremists
like the look of those involved in eco-and-animal rights terrorism."
Not one single right-wing group or individual is cited as the basis for
this assertion.

Whether "radical" right wing or just conservative, it is the
United Nations effort to impose a global government that is seen as the
real threat. Eco-extremists see it as the vehicle through which they can
impose socialism on the entire world. As for global capitalism, it represents
a way to spread the ideas of democracy and freedom while, at the same
time, extending prosperity, particularly to Third World nations.

The SPLC is employing the oldest Kremlin trick in the book. It is the
Big Lie at work.

Conservatives know that environmentalism is little more than a mask for
radical socialism. It is an instrument of the far Left and always has
been led by Leftists. The notion that unidentified right-wing organizations
would support ELF or any other environmental group is so outlandish as
to defy a rational explanation. Yet the SPLC asserts that "Many on
the radical right admire the ELF" without citing a single individual
or organization.

One need only consider who it is in the streets protesting the meetings
of global political and business leaders to understand how absurd the
SPLC assertion is. Those streets are filled with the radical Left.

The objective of the radical Left is, of course, the destruction of capitalism
and the downfall of industrialized nations operating with capitalist systems.
The Left has always used dis-information to achieve its goals, so it makes
perfect sense to engage in yet one more act of deception, the identification
of radical environmentalism with the far Right.

The SPLC was founded during the heyday of the Civil Rights movement.
Morris Dees, its founder has been canonized by the media for his work
to put the KKK out of business and why not? The KKK has a long history
of violence combined with a bad attitude toward minorities.

The one thing I keep waiting for the SPLC to offer is an explanation
why black groups have sprung up of late opposing the NAACP and openly
accusing it of engaging in racist behavior. Can one be black and conservative?
You bet!

The SPLC has not offered an explanation why, four decades since the passage
of the Civil Rights Act, 70% of black children today are born out of wedlock;
50% of black children drop out of urban schools; 25% of blacks are under
the control of the criminal justice system, or why the overwhelming percentage
of violent crimes are committed by blacks against blacks. These are, of
course, unpleasant statistics that cannot be explained away by the convenient
rubric of blaming Caucasians, Hispanics or Asians.

This latest effort to shift the blame for eco-terrorism is the same kind
of deception that led environmentalists to abandon their campaign in the
1970's to make people believe that "a new Ice Age" was about
to occur and embrace the biggest hoax of the past century, "global
warming." This is the same kind of deception that permits Greens
to put out lie-upon-lie intended to influence public opinion and public
policy.

Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs", posted
on the website of The National
Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about scare campaigns
designed to influence public opinion and policy. (c) 2001

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